Attacks

Question 1

SYN Flood

Answer 1

DoS attack in which an attacker will begin multiple TCP handshakes by sending several SYN packets.

Question 2

Teardrop

Answer 2

DoS attack in which an attacker sends several large overlapping IP fragments.

Question 3

Fraggle

Answer 3

DoS attack in which an attacker sends UDP echo and chargen packets with a spoofed source address.

Question 4

Smurf

Answer 4

DoS attack in which an attacker pings a broadcast address by sending ICMP echo request packets with a spoofed source address.